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The group walked on the wilderness, with thick sand under their feet, abandoned farmland everywhere, and then weeds grew tenaciously, especially near the river.

Sandy loam, saline-alkali land, swamp land, and depression land make it very difficult for a group to walk.

From a distance, there seemed to be the shadow of a mountain range ahead.

"Xianggong, it's that mountain, that's Grandma Mountain."

Zhang Zhugong pointed to a mountain in the northwest and said to Yang He.

Yang He took a closer look at the horse, and sure enough, there was a mountain over there.

The altitude of the mountains in Lingbi is not high, basically more than 100 meters, many mountains are also relatively scattered, looking at it on the plain, if you don't look carefully, it is difficult to find it from afar.

"Mountain." Yang He felt like he hadn't seen a mountain for a long time.

And early this morning, they set off, and there were no four people in the team: Hu Zhiyi, Hu Zhiyi, Zeng Youyu, and Chen Qiuao.

It's not that they don't want to stay, it's that they live on the side of Kaihe Mountain and want to go back to pack their bags.

They didn't explicitly say whether they wanted to stay or not, but Yang He told them that he was willing to join the army and treat them equally.

If you don't want to, you will be escorted to Pizhou, and each person will pay a hiring fee of five taels of silver.

This price is not low, after all, being a soldier for a month is one or two taels of silver, and now the price is expensive, but five taels of silver to buy a stone of rice in the state city is still possible, especially after the autumn grain harvest, the price of grain has dropped a little, and there are more materials that can be purchased.

But they live at the foot of Kaihe Mountain, coming and going for sixty or seventy miles, and from time to time they have to cross rivers, all kinds of complex terrain, quite difficult to walk.

So Yang He agreed with them to wait for them for a day at the foot of Grandma's Mountain.

Meet at the mountain temple where the Jang Izugong brothers lived.

At dawn this morning, they hurried back.

At this time, Yang He and his party were walking on the wilderness heading to Grandma Mountain, and the cold wind often blew a gust of sand and dust, so in addition to wrapping their whole bodies tightly, many people also wore hats, and the Zhang Chugong brothers also put on their red hat and crooked down.

Yang He was no exception, his younger siblings stood in the basket behind the saddle, and when they went out, Yang He put on their hats.

Han Daxia was fully armed, wearing a cloak, and opened the way far ahead.

Then there are the killers, dressed in black scarf and armor, carrying a round shield and carrying a spear, watching everything around them vigilantly.

When they walked, Yang He arranged for A to be a unit, one by one, and the first one walked in front.

In the middle are women and girls and children, and in addition to carrying various burdens, there are also women who carry baskets.

Now that the weather is getting colder, some of the younger children may not be able to stand the long journey, so Yang He left Sun Zhaodi's collection team to carry it.

Finally, there was the old and weak of the baggage team, wrapped in a black turban, carrying a round shield on his back, with a sword pinned to his waist, and carrying all kinds of supplies.

Walking in a group is also considered to be in order.

Brother Zhang Zhugong and Yang He walked in front of the killer team, and his younger brother Zhang Chuxun was discussing something with Minister Yang and Luo Xianjue, this handsome young soldier was shy in front of him, but he still had a lot to say after getting along.

They had a lively discussion, and Han Guan'er and Zhang Chujing next to them also interjected a few words from time to time.

It seems that they are discussing the Zhang brothers' firearms, and in their words, Han Guan'er and the others are very envious of their Winged Tiger Guns, and Zhang Chuxun is holding a package ticket, and he will definitely build a few equally sophisticated Winged Tiger Firearms for them.

Zhang Zhugong looked at it, his brother and Wuzhong got along very comfortably, and he also looked back frequently, and the orderly organization of the team was beyond his expectations.

He had a feeling that sooner or later this team would become an elite force.

He carried a bird gun and pointed out everything around Yang He from time to time to introduce the situation here.

Yang He nodded, seeing that it was getting closer and closer to the grandmother mountain, and then the more rivers and ditches crisscrossed it, it was basically deserted.

Here to the east of the Kaihe Mountain, both sides have been facing the Yellow River, between the two mountains sandwiched by dozens of miles of plains, the village is very many, it looks basically abandoned.

He also came here in later generations, it was densely populated and very prosperous, but in front of him was a barren grass.

Watching a prosperous place become a wilderness always makes people feel sad.

While fires and thieves were the main reasons for the abandonment of these villages, floods and droughts were the main factors.

Looking at the traces of the impact of the Yellow River under his feet, the Yang River sighed, the Yellow River flood will not be eliminated, and this place will always be a barren land.

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At that time, Yang He arrived at the foot of Grandma Mountain, and the group walked from Chenshi to the present.

People can walk an average of 10 miles per hour, they walk more than 7 o'clock, 15 miles, and almost 10 o'clock, which shows the bad road conditions here.

Fortunately, everyone was relieved.

Yang He looked at the mountain, there were maple trees and cypress trees, and there was a small Zhuangzi at the bottom of the mountain, but it collapsed everywhere and became ruins, but there was indeed a temple on the hillside.

"Xianggong, the mountain temple is over there, but the temple is not big, and there are not many people. Although the village is destroyed, there are also some abandoned houses in the village where you can rest, and the river in front of the village can also draw water. Once here, it's convenient to go north again. ”

Zhang Chugong said to Yang He.

Yang He saw that the terrain of this Zhuangzi was slightly higher, and the flood could not rush here, and looking at this trace, it should have been destroyed by the fire and banditry.

There is indeed a river on the east side of the village, you can take water for use, stand here and look north, the front is one hill after another, the terrain is uplifted, the land is solid, there is no sandy loam, saline-alkali land, swamp land, depression pond land, and the walking speed is fast.

Yang He instructed Han Daxia and Qi Youxin to lead the killer team to search the abandoned village, eliminate possible dangers, and see what they had gained, and then the baggage team collected materials, the collection team collected wild vegetables, and the logistics team prepared to make rice, and waited here for the four of them.

Then Minister Yang, Han Guan'er, Luo Xianjue and others followed, Yan Dezheng and a few old and weak people carried the soft and soft, and followed the three brothers Zhang Chugong to the mountain temple.

They walked uphill along a path, and when they got down a big Berlin, they saw the temple.

The mountain temple is not big, only one enters, the temple is very dilapidated, but it does not fall, the surrounding area has been cleaned up, the weeds and dead leaves are very few, there is a kind of clean and inhabited taste.

There is an obstacle shelter in front of the temple, which is a bit similar to a low wall, which may be the protective equipment set up by the Zhang Zhugong brothers.

The three of them stepped forward, and Zhang Chugong looked at the door, as if relieved, no one had been here on the day he left.

Then he pushed open the door and beckoned Yang Daodao: "Xianggong, please inside." ”

Yang He got off his horse and put his younger siblings down from the back basket, Minister Yang led the horse, and then everyone entered the temple.

Inside, there was a small courtyard patio, and then the lobby, and the smell of charcoal fire permeated the air, mixed with the smell of saltpeter gunpowder, and it was a little gray inside, probably because of the charcoal fire, and some of the bricks were turned coal gray.

Yang He saw that it was empty, there was a shrine platform at the head of the hall, the clay statue of the god was quite majestic, and there were some colorful paintings on the wall next to it, but now it was the same as the statue of the god, and the colors were mottled.

Looking at it, Zhang Chugong had already moved a chair out: "Xianggong, sit." ”

When Yang He sat down, he saw that Zhang Zhujing and Zhang Zhuxun brothers were already busy, constantly moving out shelves, hammers, charcoal stoves, anvils and other equipment, and putting them out in the hall one by one, and they didn't know where the three brothers had hidden the equipment earlier.

It can be seen that they have a lot of tools, and Yang He saw an anvil with a semicircular groove cross-section, and the grooves are arranged in a row, which seems to be forged with a barrel.

There is also what appears to be a drilling machine, a tool for making arrow stalks.

Seeing that their things were more and more, Yang He couldn't help but get up and watch.

Minister Yang and others also surrounded them, curiously touching around.

Yang He walked in front of the drilling machine, made a frame with wood, and made an inertia wheel with a round stone plate, tied with a leather strip, a simple principle, pulled by manpower, the stone plate can drive the drill bit to rotate and drill.

To Yang He's surprise, the quality of this drill bit is not bad, and he estimated that it has reached the standard of medium carbon steel, or even close to high carbon steel.

You should know that at this time, the fire gun drilling mostly uses fallen steel, that is, a kind of low-carbon steel, the rigidity is not very hard, the dehumidification cloth is cooled and cooled, and the drilling is rarely used in any cooling oil at this time.

Therefore, in order to avoid damage to the drill bit and loss of tools, it is necessary to stop drilling and make a bird gun for up to a month.

With high-quality drill bits, it is no wonder that the firearms in the hands of the Zhang brothers are so sophisticated.

He looked at this drill bit carefully, looked at it for a long time, and finally judged that it was Tuangang, that is, steel filling, and maybe even produced in Suzhou, which was not simple.

You must know that Daming Iron and Steel is rare, in addition to 100 steel, it is fried steel, but the process is not easy to control, and it can only reach the standard of steel by hitting the big luck, and most of the general furnace is wrought iron, and then there is a small part of low-carbon steel.

Then there is steel filling, which is a technology that has existed since the Western Jin Dynasty, and the steel filling method was widely used in the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, the disadvantage of the steel filling method is that the carbon content is uneven, and the quality of the steel is difficult to guarantee.

To get a good steel filling, also known as the group of steel, must go through many times of filling, forging, and serious forging of the steel, which requires the craftsman's physical strength and experience is very high, so the steel filling at this time is generally uneven.

However, at this time, there was a Suzhou steel method, the improvement of the steel filling method, the quality is not as good as the crucible steelmaking method, but the output is much higher, and this piece of Huaibei is rare.

The Zhang brothers don't know where to get Sugang.

However, this drill bit also has defects, that is, the shape is diamond-shaped, so it is very troublesome to process the holes deeply, and if you are not careful, the barrel will be drilled off, affecting the quality.

The inner hole processing of many gun barrels in the Ming Dynasty is bent and curved like a snake, and the cross-section is irregular and round, and even some craftsmen drill to half, turn over and drill half from the other end, and finally reamed it with a four-edged frustration knife, and the quality of the inner hole can be imagined.

Of course, Yang He knows how to solve this drawback, and the method is still very simple, but he won't say it now.

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Lao Bainiu: Thank you to the secretary of the Party Committee of the United States Special Administrative Region, my favorite Zhao Zhongju, Just Look at Ming, Lopez Sauce, Unification Lao Si, vegetable farmers and other book friends for their voting rewards, etc., sorry that there are too many people to list them all.

In the past two days, I haven't written much, and the speed of sending and saving manuscripts is a little fast, and I will send a chapter, and if I write more, I will send a lot of it.

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